Martin Takac
@TakacMartin
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Call for participation: KAUST Workshop on Distributed Training in the Era of Large Models https://t.co/RkSsUkP5Mx location: KAUST, Saudi Arabia dates: Nov 24-26, 2025. There will be a chance for some participants to present a poster and/or give a lightning talk.
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We have started the #icomp conference with prof. Daniel Kuhn talk about contextual stochastic bilevel optimization https://t.co/h5tfT500RF
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Struggling with data heterogeneity in your deep learning projects? We introduce ALSO, a new, practical Distributionally Robust Optimizer (DRO)🚀 📜 Paper thread for "Aligning Distributionally Robust Optimization with Practical Deep Learning Needs"
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Our paper introduces the first Quasi-Newton method with global convergence as fast as - and even faster than - gradient descent! ✅O(1/k) global rate ⚡Accelerated version: O(1/k²) 🧠Adaptive, cubic regularization for stability & speed Quasi-Newton finally catches up with theory.
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🔬 The lab of the future is here. A place where robots run the experiments. AI makes sense of the data. Scientists steer the breakthroughs. A new Science Robotics article co-authored by #MBZUAI’s VP for Research Prof. Sami Haddadin shows how this could cut years of discovery
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🎉 Accepted to #NeurIPS2025 (Benchmark Track)! SVRPBench: a realistic benchmark for stochastic VRP—traffic peaks, log-normal delays, accidents, and real time windows—across 500+ urban-scale instances. Learn more: https://t.co/JsAOoCueAq
#MBZUAI #VRP #OR
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Robust routing under uncertainty is central to real-world logistics, yet most benchmarks assume static, idealized settings. We present SVRPBench, the first open benchmark to capture high-fidelity...
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🚀 AI4OPT Challenge! Build an agentic AI that reads, experiments, and writes a mini-paper. Tweak the pipeline. Beat the baselines. Win an award. Check: https://t.co/bXBxdvDwTg
#AgenticAI #ML #Optimization #LLM #MBZUAI #ICOMP
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The upcoming launch of the "K2 Think" model will mark a significant step in advancing artificial intelligence from the UAE to the world, reflecting our leadership's vision for technological progress. K2 Think will combine the efficiency of smaller models with world-class
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New Quasi-Newton method CEQN offers a simple, explicit stepsize with guaranteed global convergence for convex optimization, matching accelerated methods’ rates even with inexact Hessians. #Optimization #MBZUAI
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🔧 Comp-opt friends: show us your solver magic! #ICOMP2025 lands in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪. Abstracts due Aug 1, papers Aug 15 (AoE). Expect killer talks + sunny networking. Details/CFP ⬇️ https://t.co/li3V6hPfIW
#CallForPapers #Optimization #ML
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🚀 Join @MBZUAI (Abu Dhabi) to advance efficient & distributed ML! 🔹 Postdoctoral Associate — https://t.co/7ElP2tqiuE 🔹 Visiting Student — https://t.co/z8iR2NBLy6 Apply now and help shape the future of #MachineLearning. #AI #Postdoc #PhD #Careers
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🚀 Postdoc @MBZUAI: drive #LLM reasoning for energy under my & S. Lahlou. PhD (NLP/LLM), strong publications & PyTorch/TensorFlow. Apply: https://t.co/H55PnciXvk. Please RT/share w/ top candidates! #MBZUAI #LLM #Postdoc #ML #NLP #AIResearch #IndustryCollaboration #EnergyAI
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🚀 Great work by my students and collaborators! Pushing routing algorithms closer to real-world deployment with SVRPBench — worth a look for anyone in ML/OR/logistics. https://t.co/lxXCI6BetJ
#mbzuai #AI #VehicleRouting
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Did you know that most logistics (vehicle routing) benchmarks ignore real-world chaos? Academic datasets assume perfect conditions - no traffic jams, no accidents, no delivery complications. But real...
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Big news!📢 We've launched our first undergraduate program: Bachelor of Science in AI. This multi-disciplinary program combines core AI expertise with entrepreneurship and real-world industry experience—empowering our students to #BuildWhatsNext. Applications for Fall 2025 are
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Excited to share what I have been working since a year! The introduction of a new BSc degree in AI at @mbzuai (ranked 10 worldwide in the main fields of AI on CSRankings) with two tracks, one in Engineering and one in Business. We are recruiting top students from all over the
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The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is disrupting the AI education…
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